Upgrade Portworx Central and its components
Upgrades with License server and px-monitor
If you have only license server or px-monitor component and try to upgrade to Portworx Central version to 2.7.3 or 2.8.0 from older versions, pre-upgrade-check fails with the following error:
time="2025-05-21T04:59:01Z" level=fatal msg="Error during common setup for pre-upgrade: failed to create validation report: Failed to get Portworx Backup source version: GetPXBackupVersion: failed to get PX-Backup deployment: deployments.apps \"px-backup\" not found"
In such scenarios, perform the following steps to resolve the issue and proceed further:
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Delete the
pre-upgrade-checkjob andpre-upgrade-data-pvcin the installed namespace (namespace where you have installed PX-central) and retry the upgrade by adding the following additional parameter to the helm upgrade command.--no-hooksSample command format:
helm upgrade px-central portworx/px-central --namespace central --version <pxc-version> --no-hooks -f values-px-upgrade.yamlEnsure that you replace
<pxc-version>with your Portworx Central version.
The following topics explain how you can upgrade Portworx Central from 1.2.x versions to 2.9.x and enable its components.
Upgrade Portworx Central from versions 1.2.1 to 2.9.x
Upgrade Portworx Central 1.2.1 versions to the latest version.
Upgrade Portworx Central from versions 2.6.1 to 2.9.0
Upgrade from Portworx Central version 2.6.1 to 2.9.x
Enable Portworx Backup
Enable your version of Portworx Backup
Enable license server
Learn how to enable the license server component
Enable monitoring service
Learn how to enable the monitoring service